[Wlug] Smart package manager

Frank Sweetser fs at WPI.EDU
Mon Sep 18 10:31:19 EDT 2006


On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 10:14:08AM -0400, John Stoffel wrote:
> This is really interesting.  I've been very happy with 'apt-get' on my
> Debian box, but I've been totally ticked at how slow 'yum' is on my
> Fedora Core 3 box at work.  I should probably just rebuild the thing,
> but hey, it's my main desktop and working for now.

It's worth noting that the version of yum that ships with FC3 is pretty old,
and newer ones are a *lot* faster.

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